In line with the Financial Times, Tim Cook dinner might step down as Apple CEO as early as subsequent 12 months. And the board has began to noticeably work out a succession plan. FT says that John Ternus, Apple’s senior vice-president of {hardware} engineering, is taken into account the frontrunner for the place.
Rumors of Cook dinner’s stepping down observe the retirement of Apple COO Jeff Williams, whose final day on the firm was Friday. As a part of that departure, there was some shuffling of tasks on the govt stage, together with expanded roles for Providers chief Eddy Cue, head of software program engineering Craig Federighi, and Ternus.
No matter who winds up taking on as CEO, it’s unlikely to be somebody from outdoors Apple. Tim Cook dinner has beforehand mentioned there’s a robust desire for an inner candidate and that the corporate has “very detailed succession plans.”